Charge of Assault
AT the Gladstone Police Court on Wednesday last, before the P.M., A. J. Paine, post master at Smithtown charged Thomas Logan, master of the…
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Courts & crime, 1897
80 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 4
The Cassilis Murder
LAST week two lads named Phillips, aged 16 and 14 respectively, were committed for trial for the murder of their father. The remains of the elder Phillips was…
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At the West Kempsey Police Court yesterday, before the P.M., Richard Hoolahan and Joseph O'Malley were charged by Sergeant McClelland with…
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On Tuesday night the dead body of a man named William Brady was found dead at the rear of Messrs. Cooper and Sons, ironmongers of…
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William Myles Phillips, the youth charged with the murder of Brady, has made full confession of his guilt. He said Brady and himself had an…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At the Court House. Tuesday, Jan. 19th. -- Before Messrs. J. W. Wilson and C. Sutherland, J's.P
Edward Gannon was brought up by Constable Hanney, charged with being drunk and disorderly at Smithtown on Monday evening, the 18th inst. A fine of 5s and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Court House. POLICE. Monday, Jan. 25. -- Before Capt. Davies, P.M. ASSAULT
GUS. JONES, a well-known character, was charged with assaulting Thomas Newtown on Saturday, the 23rd instant. In his evidence Thos. Newtown deposed…
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Phillips has been found guilty of the murder of Brady…
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Alfred Lancaster, on bail, was charged with being drunk at Frederickton on the 26th ult. Mr. Gilfillan appeared for the defence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Court House. Small Debts. Tuesday, Feb. 2nd. -- Before the P.M.
Patrick O'Rourke v. Henry. Davis. -- Mr. Jones appeared for Davis and Mr. Gilfillan for O'Rourke. In this case plaintiff sued, for the price of a plough, which be stated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Court House. POLICE. Tuesday, Feb. 9th. -- Before the P.M.
Ed. Teague, of East Eempsey, was sued by Forester Brown, of Port Macquarie, for cutting timber on Crown Lands without a license. Defendant was fined 20s and costs…
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At the West Kempsey Police Court on Monday, Arthur Wilson, on remand, Was charged with disobeying a maintenance order. He was fined…
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Edward Freeman pleaded guilty to stealing a horse the property of Mr. F. J. Marriott. The judge sentenced him to three years hard labor in Darlinghurst…
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Michael Mennis and Albert Frederick Chapman, on bail, were then arraigned and charged with assaulting the Rev. J. B. Penman, Primitive Methodist…
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The trial of J. H. Amora, Consul for several South American States, was concluded yesterday. He was charged with misappropriating the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At the Court House. POLICE. Monday, March 2nd. -- Before the P.M.
George Cairns was brought before the court for protection. Dr. Casement deposed that Cairns was an inmate of the Hospital suffering from…
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At the Kempsey Police Court on Monday, before the P.M., Patrick Stafford, charged by Constable Robertson with being drunk, was find 5s…
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AT the West Kempsey Police Court yesterday morning, before Captain Davies, P.M., the case of George Lamb Fagan, of Sydney, charged with stealing a mare, the…
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A remarkable case has been heard by the Recorder of New York. William Macdonald was brought into court charged with having entered a house for the purpose of…
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E. S. Rowe, a well-known man about town, has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for embezzlement…
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